Los Angeles daily herald., 1887-10-10
The Combination Land CO.
SPECIAL NO. 4.

And a popular government formed In their
stead"
But time rolls around, and Athena and Juno
And Daphne and Hebe and Flora and
Crete,
And a dozen or more Heathen women whom
you know,
street.
The Tyre that in Hades once twanged for
Eurydice
Now praises LEUcADIA, Queen OF our Coast,
And the Tyre tells the truth when 1t says
neer before did | see
place where the truth seems lie and
boast.
Where else Is spot where the fig and the
pumpkin
Wilt grow side by side without water or
care,
And each visitor feel as If he were some kin
To God when ne breathes the electrical
air?
If man has hundred or two hundred
handy,
He will buy lot there, not day will he
wait,
For LEUCADIA the lovely, the darling, the
Is the brightest and neatest young town in
the State
EOE SllmulG, lol hSaith, ioi oSuues VI cueA
LEuCADiA we praise in Hexameters slow
Let our readers with spi its elated to dizzi-
ness,
There are hundreds of thousands OF acres
of land in Los Angeles, San Bernardino and
San Diego counties, suitable for orchards and
vineyards.
But there Is only one seaside, and only one
LEUcADIA. There are hundreds of thousands
of acres now dry and uncultivated, which
can by labor be changed into garden or
chards.
But there is only one strip of land which
upon which the surges OF ocean sound their
mighty diapason, only one place where Dame
Nature wears her skiit of translucent beryl
embroidered with foamy lace. And nowhere
is this music-room and picture gallery of.the
Deity so attractive as at LEUcADIA.
Capital can construct reservoirs and fumes
and railroads, it can mako distant acres &C
cessible, and cause arid acres to undulate
with yerdure
But the wealth OF Jay Gould could not
bring the iodined healing breath Of ocean to
the bedside of the invalid in the hot valley,
or add one yard to the present limited supply
of ocean beach.
We say limited-go to the map and look!
All the seaside north of Santa Barbara may
be eliminated from the list of available
ocean-side property. The Japanese ocean
current-the "Gulf Stream" of the Pacific,
in its southwark journey from Arctic waters
hugs the shore closely from the Straits OF
cold water-too cold for comfortable bath
ing. Monterey, for instance, is in the lati.
tude of Savannah, Georgia, but nine people
out of ten who visit Monterey bathe in the
big tanks where the water Is warmed by arti
fetal heat, and do not bathe in the ocean
As for Santa Cruz, there is a couplet written
by some shivering pleasure seeker, on the
walls of bath-hou there, which couplet &C.
curately expresses the situation.
"Santa Cruz water is like Scotch snuff,
One dip" and you've got enough"
At Point Concepeion-just above Santa
Barbara-the cold, ocean current continues
southwark in direct course, while the
Coast line defects eastwardly at sharp
angle, and in few miles the water, under
the genial suns of this latitude, becomes
warm enough to make bathing in any month
of the y ar real pleasure instead of "a
painful duty reluctantly performed" as
Millard Fillmore said when he signed the
Fugitive Slave Law, and as Brigham Young
remarked when he married his eighteenth
wife.
From Santa Barbara south to Point Vicente
there is but little coast that is available fol
driving, and the surf consequently too heavy
to make bathing either pleasant ,or safe
while the bluff along the beach is severa
hundred feet in height, and cut up witt
arroyos, SO as to make the ocean practically
inaccessible to all except Alpine tourists anC
crows.
From Point Vicente to San Pedro there are
probably twenty or thirty miles of available
beach, along which are the towns of Santt
Monica, Ballona. Long Beach, etc.
Below San Pedro there are only mud flats
and iagoons, until San Juan by the sea il
reached. Leaving San Juan, there is ne
ground available for seaside resort unit
the mouth OF Temecula Canon is crossed ant
| Oceanside reached. At Oceanside, the direc
road from Los Angeles to San Diego, now II
| process of construction, will connect witt
the California Southern Railroad from Col
ton to San Diego. Oceanside lots are held a
| good figures, fifteen hundred dollars for
| let on the Ocean avenue and five hundred
dollars for residence lots mile and NOR,
from the beach. South of Oceanside is th'
| Aqua Hedionda. 1t has several miles of fin,
seaside, but the owner is able to keep it, h
| will not sell at any price, and If you annoy
him with an attempt to talk about selling, h'
will make the interview as brief as may b.
consistent with courtesy. Then comes Carls
bad, and it is beautiful location, and Their
will be large town there. and prices of lot
are already away up, as they ought to be
From Carlsbad south there are lagO0ns, sant
dunes and broken ground until you reacl
Marcos south to Encenitas Is the prettiest sit
| in the world for an ocean city, and on this sit
is "Leucadia"-the subject of our sketch
lies in the lap of Paradise: She is the faires
Venus Amphridite of Southern California
The beach Is hard and level. You can driv
along it for twelve miles. For bathing ther
| is no need of lines, for the surf is SO light
would not upset baby, and there being n
lagoons near there are in consequence n
stingrays. From the edge of the bluff ovei
hanging the beach the ground slopes gentl
up to the top of the first ridge. then it dc
g9uy n then vas hefe IS gradua ws
to the top of the second ridge mile or S
| away.
The amazing thing about Leucadia, and Il
which it differs from every other SEASIDE 1
its soil The valley and hill slopes are coy
cred with Fig, Apricot, Eucalyptus an
| other trees, and they are green with vine
yards and corn fie DIS.
Leucadia is in process of preparation 70
| the market Streets and avenues have bee
cleared. graded, staked and named afte
Greek dcities and persOnages. A drinkin
fountain and bath house are being erecte
at a white sulphur we'll on Hygeria avenue
grades thereto have been constructed. ..
railroad station, after the model of the Par
theon, has been built, and ,.;'.,di diining-roor
mnderoround stream of water has bee
struck which will be raised by cyclone mill
TO reservoir on the summit of high hill
from which pipes are now being laid throug
the avenues.
TWO HUNDRED LOTS WILL BE OFFET
ED At AUCTION ON WEDNESDAY, O(
ToBER 20, 1887. and no lots will be sol
before that date. There will be an excursio
train from Los Angeles to San Diego and II
turn. leaving Los Angeles, Tuesday, 0ctobc
18th, 1887. Holders of excursion tickets o
this train will receive at the office OF tn
Com bination Land Company, in San Diego
free excursion tickets to Leucadia and retur
to San Diego. There; will be music, an
teams for driving on the beach a and ,hdt terrace
nreii m;nory address by MIR. THOMAS FITCH
On "Southern California and the Boom,
the prince of auctioncors, Mr.. u. II. MA
tt,., 10 In.